Data from: Hidden costs of infection: chronic malaria accelerates telomere degradation and senescence in wild birds
| Main Authors: | Asghar, Muhammad, Hasselquist, Dennis, Hansson, Bengt, Zehtindjiev, Pavel, Westerdahl, Helena, Bensch, Staffan |
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| Format: | info dataset Journal |
| Terbitan: |
, 2016
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/4978252 |
Daftar Isi:
- Recovery from infection is not always complete, and mild chronic infection may persist. Although the direct costs of such infections are apparently small, the potential for any long-term effects on Darwinian fitness is poorly understood. In a wild population of great reed warblers, we found that low-level chronic malaria infection reduced life span as well as the lifetime number and quality of offspring. These delayed fitness effects of malaria appear to be mediated by telomere degradation, a result supported by controlled infection experiments on birds in captivity. The results of this study imply that chronic infection may be causing a series of small adverse effects that accumulate and eventually impair phenotypic quality and Darwinian fitness.
- Wild GRW DRYAD1_Asghar et al.Wild great reed warblers data for lifespan, lifetime reproductive success, telomere length and malaria infection statusOffspring GRW DRYAD2_Asghar et al.Great reed warblers age and malaria infection status at time of breeding event and their offspring early-life telomere lengthExperimental GRW DRYAD3_Asghar et al.Experimental great reed warblers data for malaria infection and telomere degradationSongRate GRW DRYAd4_Asghar et al.Male great reed warblers song rate and malaria infection statusFemalFeeding GRW DRYAD5_Asghar et al.Female great reed warblers offspring feeding rate and malaria status